CLUSTER 60B
America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 60A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Winter 2025 - Professor Avila lectured a good amount during Winter Quarter and I did enjoy his lectures. He focuses on architecture and history during the 60s. His lectures are very information-heavy heavy which can make the class a little boring and heavy, but in general, what he covers is very interesting history. The class is made up of two papers, a music paper and a history assignment closing with a final. The class is not recorded, but lecture slides are posted on BruinLearn.
Winter 2025 - Professor Avila lectured a good amount during Winter Quarter and I did enjoy his lectures. He focuses on architecture and history during the 60s. His lectures are very information-heavy heavy which can make the class a little boring and heavy, but in general, what he covers is very interesting history. The class is made up of two papers, a music paper and a history assignment closing with a final. The class is not recorded, but lecture slides are posted on BruinLearn.
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Winter 2019 - Professor Decker is so fucking boring; by the end of the second quarter I hated his lectures with passion. The other professors were somewhat better, specially Fink, but overall the class gets really tiresome by the Winter quarter. However, I would advise sticking with it until the end, as the Spring seminar was quite fun and enjoyable (I took it with Tom, but it is different for every TA and year, so YMMV). Personally, I think it's worth the extra credit.
Winter 2019 - Professor Decker is so fucking boring; by the end of the second quarter I hated his lectures with passion. The other professors were somewhat better, specially Fink, but overall the class gets really tiresome by the Winter quarter. However, I would advise sticking with it until the end, as the Spring seminar was quite fun and enjoyable (I took it with Tom, but it is different for every TA and year, so YMMV). Personally, I think it's worth the extra credit.
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Fall 2025 - Please do not take this class, the lectures are extremely poorly structured to the point where it feels like it's impossible to know what you have to remember which is detrimental considering this is a history class. The workload is stupid as well, there are daily required readings that are irrelevant and no one reads but they come up in the final and midterm. Please don't take this class take any other cluster it actually sucks.
Fall 2025 - Please do not take this class, the lectures are extremely poorly structured to the point where it feels like it's impossible to know what you have to remember which is detrimental considering this is a history class. The workload is stupid as well, there are daily required readings that are irrelevant and no one reads but they come up in the final and midterm. Please don't take this class take any other cluster it actually sucks.
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